Copy of fairground with attractions including theatrical booths (ciber [sic] and bullock's collapsing on the right, and lee and harper's in the centre), china shop, rope dancer and rope-flyer, quack doctor, peep show, conjuror (isaac fawkes) and broadsword fighter on horseback; in the foreground a black boy plays a trumpet and a young woman a drum; reverse copy of a print by william hogarth
etching and engraving. Date: between 1735 and 1760. Dimensions: Height: 373 mm; Width: 476 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Theophilus Cibber. Collection: British Museum. The Humours and Divertions of Southwark Fair (BM 1880,1113.5183)
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